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Walnut Hill Shooting Victim Arrested For Battery
September 5, 2015
The target of a shooting Wednesday morning near Walnut Hill has been arrested.
Jake Clayton Smith, 26, was charged with battery. He remained in the Escambia County Jail without bond early Saturday morning.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office responded to Smith’s residence in the 6000 block of Rockaway Creek Road Wednesday morning where they found him with injuries to his legs and feet after a couple of gunshots were fired in his direction but into the floor of the home. He was injured by debris, but not directly shot.
When deputies arrived, they heard a female cry for help, and found her in a bathroom window stating that Smith was trying to get into the bathroom with her. The deputy advised her to crawl out of the windows, at which time Smith came out the rear door of the residence and was taken into custody without incident.
The female told deputies that she had accompanied Smith to a Davisville bar that morning so he could have a drink in memory of a deceased friend. He became intoxicated and upset, accusing her of flirting with other men at the bar, according to an arrest report.
When they returned to the residence, Smith came inside and grabbed a gun. The female stated she grabbed the gun away from Smith and had another firearm in her possession. She backed into a corner of the living room with both weapons, and fired both guns into the floor with Smith lunged and grabbed her around the neck.
The victim ran into a bedroom and locked the door, but did not have her cell phone to call 911. Instead, she used a tablet to message her brother on Facebook to call the Sheriff’s Office.
Smith was transported by ambulance to Atmore Community Hospital for treatment.
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4 Responses to “Walnut Hill Shooting Victim Arrested For Battery”
I put the floors in this house if she shot the floor pieces of tile went every where that would almost be as bad as the bullet hitting u if not worse
Please remember: not all claims are true, not all claims are false. Few claims are complete.
If you can’t live together, separate. If you can’t handle a drink, stop drinking. If you are in fear for your life enough to shoot a gun at someone, kill them.
He already went and got a gun, that she managed to get away from him (kudos by the way), then choked her (to which she got away, again kudos). So yeah he best say a prayer, he’d be a dead man if it were just about anyone else. To Mr. Smith, if you are that jealous of a person, go get help, also stop drinking you can’t hold your booze. You don’t need a girlfriend, a gun or alcohol.
Good old fashioned country livin’!